Originally posted by le sonick:I'm not a good example because I get up early and run around my local park and down to the water which is about 4.5 miles total. But for shits and giggles I'd like you to get into your car, oh sometime when it hits just say 85, watch the speedometer and drive 3 miles and park. Now walk back home, get some water, then walk back to your car. Like I said I run every day, and will do so out in Indio as well. But I'm not walking even a phuckin mile anytime past noon in Indio, with the thought of dealing with a festival all day/night then having to walk back through all that goddamn dust…let alone 3 miles. If that makes me a wuss, make the t-shirt and I'll wear it proudly, but being from California I think that's suicidal. But you sound like a guy that would relish running a marathon during Burning Man, too hardcore for me.
Originally posted by bnyced0:dont be a wuss!!! 3 miles isnt that bad, and if you go early, it wont be too hot.
It may be good for the environment, but I wouldn't say the same for your health. You're looking at 3 miles in 90plus degree weather, so you'll arrive roasted and sweaty before you START your day. Afterwards Has been a major pain in the ass but they are trying to address that this year by having two lots, one for carpools (4 or more) and one for the rest with supposedly quicker entrance and exits for carpoolers.
and as for my traffic experiences, i havent been sice 04 and the 3 years i went, it seemed that every problem one year, was fixed the next.
Coachella - Your Schedule Here!
well im sure most of you are off to coachella already, but i highly recommend seeing Faithless. "God is a DJ" was worth the price of the ticket alone. Webster Hall was pure energy at that moment (well ok during most the set) probably thanks to most the crowd being from England. Also, Reverence, We Come 1, Insomnia and I Want More were played and Salva Mea was played for the encore.
But for those who say NYC folks are too hip to dance, come out to any show where dancing is required, and you will get it. I want more and we come 1 had the crowd bouncing in synch and everyone dancing, arms flying in the air. great time was had by all!
by far, show of the year! and ive seen lots of shows already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMLerqyrVas
But for those who say NYC folks are too hip to dance, come out to any show where dancing is required, and you will get it. I want more and we come 1 had the crowd bouncing in synch and everyone dancing, arms flying in the air. great time was had by all!
by far, show of the year! and ive seen lots of shows already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMLerqyrVas
Originally posted by xneverwherex:I've never seen them live, but the clip of their live performance in the film "Glastonbury" was really something else.
well im sure most of you are off to coachella already, but i highly recommend seeing Faithless.
It was one of their rave-ier tunes, and although I'm not generally into trancey stuff, you could feel the crowd pulsating, and feel the whole tension and release that's so central to dance music.
I'd see 'em if I were going to Coachella.
dont forget, you can watch Coachella live in the AT&T Blue Room
http://attblueroom.com/events/coachellaschedule.php
http://attblueroom.com/events/coachellaschedule.php
Originally posted by Christine Moritz:I agree! After seeing Glastonbury it made my decision on spending $35 a hell of a lot easier on going to see them. Of course, when I saw that video, that also sold me. And yes, you can feel the crowd pulsating, the energy. Its rather unreal. NYC did them justice and the band seemed energized and feeding off of it. Its not often you get that kind of show. And I'm sure that will never do justice, compared to that glastonbury performance.
Originally posted by xneverwherex:I've never seen them live, but the clip of their live performance in the film "Glastonbury" was really something else.
well im sure most of you are off to coachella already, but i highly recommend seeing Faithless.
It was one of their rave-ier tunes, and although I'm not generally into trancey stuff, you could feel the crowd pulsating, and feel the whole tension and release that's so central to dance music.
I'd see 'em if I were going to Coachella.
btw - i believe it might have been 'god is a dj' on what they performed, but its been a few weeks and i could be wrong. possibly insomnia, i just recall it being one of their more popular songs.
so any reports? or are folks still wrecked from the weekend?
110 degrees
Best sets, in no particular order
Bjork
Tiesto
RATM
Teddy Bears
Faithless
Placebo
Arctic Monkeys
Paul Van Dyke
I've seen Rage play tighter sets but none more powerful, the atmosphere was electric as well as the performance. Bjork was simply stunning, not everyone was into and I saw many people leave, but just more room for the rest of us.
Deathly hot, grossly over crowded on Sat/Sun, over all I'd say it exceeded what seems to be everyone's benchmark of 2004 (though I think 99 was the best). Really need to cap ticket sales at about 50K, or expand the area or double staff, concessions, rest rooms, etc everything was stressed near breaking point. There were a couple of the "Coachella moments" where the combination of the artist, the physical beauty and presence of the location, and the mood of those around you combine for something that only happens in Indio. Amongst them was Bjork's first encore, two songs into Faithless, the first chord of RATM, a few more that my fried brain can't articulate at the moment. 3 days is brutal but it should probably stay that way, but still WAY too many conflicts.
Bjork
Tiesto
RATM
Teddy Bears
Faithless
Placebo
Arctic Monkeys
Paul Van Dyke
I've seen Rage play tighter sets but none more powerful, the atmosphere was electric as well as the performance. Bjork was simply stunning, not everyone was into and I saw many people leave, but just more room for the rest of us.
Deathly hot, grossly over crowded on Sat/Sun, over all I'd say it exceeded what seems to be everyone's benchmark of 2004 (though I think 99 was the best). Really need to cap ticket sales at about 50K, or expand the area or double staff, concessions, rest rooms, etc everything was stressed near breaking point. There were a couple of the "Coachella moments" where the combination of the artist, the physical beauty and presence of the location, and the mood of those around you combine for something that only happens in Indio. Amongst them was Bjork's first encore, two songs into Faithless, the first chord of RATM, a few more that my fried brain can't articulate at the moment. 3 days is brutal but it should probably stay that way, but still WAY too many conflicts.
gawd damn.
best festival ever?
it was like fantasy day-camp for musically obsessed adult sufferers of hyperactive attention deficit disorder.
what bnyced said, except for the tiesto part - i thought he blew chunks. at that moment, i was busy tearing it up with the rapture in the dance tent. other highlights of mine: nightwatchman (incredible, brought out perry farrell), hot chip, arcade fire. faithless was indeed good, but hands-down best dance set was soulwax. hawtin was interesting, kooks solid and i thorougly enjoyed starting off my festie with two hours of comedians of comedy (has the "kill dane cook" flipchart made it on to the blogs yet?). disappointments: tiesto, kaiser chiefs, rhcp (i was hoping they'd do something special, but from the bits that i overheard they pretty much played the same set i've now heard three times in the past year). this is all off the top of my burned-out head, i'm sure i'll look at the schedule again and remember a ton of great acts that i should call out.
parking lot/transpo was totally not a problem - we were back in our hotel 30 minutes after we go in the car every night. trick was not to park where eeryone else did, and not take the same route home as every else did. we had the hands-down best hotel: pool and hot tub open all night, so there was a nice chill after-party scene every night under the stars.
i agree about rage: not the best i've ever heard them, but damn there is no other act that can do that to several tens of thousands of people. "be careful what you wish for" story: i wanted to be relatively close, and ended up being too close. when the band hit the stage, i was swept up and forward about 6 feet and THEN things got nuts. spent the first song fighting for survival, spent the second song fighting my way back about 80 feet to safety. i wonder how many people got hurt in there. i wasn't even in the very front section, i was behind the first line of barricades. pure madness. i can't see how anyone can enjoy a performance in that kind of a full-scale riot. once i was as far back as the soundboard, it was safe to stop and actually take in the show. and what a show it was. zach called for bush and his croonies to be tried, hung and shot "like the war criminals that they are".
best festival ever?
it was like fantasy day-camp for musically obsessed adult sufferers of hyperactive attention deficit disorder.
what bnyced said, except for the tiesto part - i thought he blew chunks. at that moment, i was busy tearing it up with the rapture in the dance tent. other highlights of mine: nightwatchman (incredible, brought out perry farrell), hot chip, arcade fire. faithless was indeed good, but hands-down best dance set was soulwax. hawtin was interesting, kooks solid and i thorougly enjoyed starting off my festie with two hours of comedians of comedy (has the "kill dane cook" flipchart made it on to the blogs yet?). disappointments: tiesto, kaiser chiefs, rhcp (i was hoping they'd do something special, but from the bits that i overheard they pretty much played the same set i've now heard three times in the past year). this is all off the top of my burned-out head, i'm sure i'll look at the schedule again and remember a ton of great acts that i should call out.
parking lot/transpo was totally not a problem - we were back in our hotel 30 minutes after we go in the car every night. trick was not to park where eeryone else did, and not take the same route home as every else did. we had the hands-down best hotel: pool and hot tub open all night, so there was a nice chill after-party scene every night under the stars.
i agree about rage: not the best i've ever heard them, but damn there is no other act that can do that to several tens of thousands of people. "be careful what you wish for" story: i wanted to be relatively close, and ended up being too close. when the band hit the stage, i was swept up and forward about 6 feet and THEN things got nuts. spent the first song fighting for survival, spent the second song fighting my way back about 80 feet to safety. i wonder how many people got hurt in there. i wasn't even in the very front section, i was behind the first line of barricades. pure madness. i can't see how anyone can enjoy a performance in that kind of a full-scale riot. once i was as far back as the soundboard, it was safe to stop and actually take in the show. and what a show it was. zach called for bush and his croonies to be tried, hung and shot "like the war criminals that they are".
Originally posted by brennser:are you kidding me? it'll take a week to recoup. too much sun + too much heat + too much dancing = too much.
so any reports? or are folks still wrecked from the weekend?
Originally posted by sweetcell:It's hearing shit like that forces me to cop yet another ticket for the second day of Rock The Bells just so I can go up top to catch Rage 2 nights in a row. And I gotta DJ that weekend plus turn down an okay amount of dead presidents to do it. (Not to mention the lovely bargain basement fares of a hotel room in Mid-town Manhattan. Pause. :roll: ) My concert habit's finnin' to be the death of thee . . . . . . . .
gawd damn.
best festival ever?
i agree about rage: not the best i've ever heard them, but damn there is no other act that can do that to several tens of thousands of people. "be careful what you wish for" story: i wanted to be relatively close, and ended up being too close. when the band hit the stage, i was swept up and forward about 6 feet and THEN things got nuts. spent the first song fighting for survival, spent the second song fighting my way back about 80 feet to safety. i wonder how many people got hurt in there. i wasn't even in the very front section, i was behind the first line of barricades. pure madness. i can't see how anyone can enjoy a performance in that kind of a full-scale riot. once i was as far back as the soundboard, it was safe to stop and actually take in the show. and what a show it was. zach called for bush and his croonies to be tried, hung and shot "like the war criminals that they are".
are you kidding me? it'll take a week to recoup. too much sun + too much heat + too much dancing = too much.
Originally posted by TheDirector217:its the death of me. not the death of thee.
the death of thee . . . . . . . .
;)
For Rage we we're behind the soundboard back where the second set of speakers are situated for folks far back from the mainstage. You give up any chance of seeing the stage with the naked eye, but the sound is perfect and with the screens you dont' miss a thing.
I'm not a Tiesto fan, don't find him terribly original, and there are so many people that are better (including nearly every dj at Coachella), but as a spectacle and reducing a set into a digestible product for the masses, he's a master and love him or hate him he is "entertaining." I thought the vibe, which was unlike DJ centric events like the Winter Music Conference was exceptional during his set. Enough defending that Twat.
Anyway, hopefully no one made the death march in that heat by walking to/fro the festival. Like it's been said before a little prudent planning and you can drive in/park and exit without a lot of drama. And I don't understand the camping situation, from what I could tell there were no trees/shade with these kids setting up in open fields that has to be some kind of human rights violation, right?
I'm not a Tiesto fan, don't find him terribly original, and there are so many people that are better (including nearly every dj at Coachella), but as a spectacle and reducing a set into a digestible product for the masses, he's a master and love him or hate him he is "entertaining." I thought the vibe, which was unlike DJ centric events like the Winter Music Conference was exceptional during his set. Enough defending that Twat.
Anyway, hopefully no one made the death march in that heat by walking to/fro the festival. Like it's been said before a little prudent planning and you can drive in/park and exit without a lot of drama. And I don't understand the camping situation, from what I could tell there were no trees/shade with these kids setting up in open fields that has to be some kind of human rights violation, right?
Originally posted by sweetcell:
[QB] gawd damn.
best festival ever?
it was like fantasy day-camp for musically obsessed adult sufferers of hyperactive attention deficit disorder.
what bnyced said, except for the tiesto part - i thought he blew chunks.
Those Coachella organizers thought of everything!
They even had Danny DeVito there to greet the Japanese musicians (he was the only guy short enough). Here he is with Yuko Araki from Cornelius' band:
<img src="http://www.office-augusta.com/img/araki/cornelius_diary/upimg/79.png" alt=" - " />
They even had Danny DeVito there to greet the Japanese musicians (he was the only guy short enough). Here he is with Yuko Araki from Cornelius' band:
<img src="http://www.office-augusta.com/img/araki/cornelius_diary/upimg/79.png" alt=" - " />
How were the Jesus and Mary Chain? What did they play?
Originally posted by Stairmaster E:They didn't think about how to get the losers from clogging up the stairs to the porta-potties near the Majave tent while looky-loos were trying to see Paris Hilton after the CSS set. Talk about needing to be shot, soooo not part of the solution… phuckin sychophants.
Those Coachella organizers thought of everything!
They even had Danny DeVito there to greet the Japanese musicians (he was the only guy short enough). Here he is with Yuko Araki from Cornelius' band:
<img src="http://www.office-augusta.com/img/araki/cornelius_diary/upimg/79.png" alt=" - " />
Awesome! Second only to Bjork for me. I don't have a setlist handy.
Originally posted by bearman:
How were the Jesus and Mary Chain? What did they play?
I camped and by saturday night, I was thinking it was a human rights violation. The friend who I went with and I were too drained and exhausted for the most part due to the heat to stay sunday. :( Still had an amazing time regardless.
Re: Tiesto, his overly loud crapfest ruined The Good, The Bad and The Queen's set. Daman Albarn between a couple songs: "That over there is the loudest ice cream van I've ever heard."
Re: Tiesto, his overly loud crapfest ruined The Good, The Bad and The Queen's set. Daman Albarn between a couple songs: "That over there is the loudest ice cream van I've ever heard."
Originally posted by bnyced0:
For Rage we we're behind the soundboard back where the second set of speakers are situated for folks far back from the mainstage. You give up any chance of seeing the stage with the naked eye, but the sound is perfect and with the screens you dont' miss a thing.
I'm not a Tiesto fan, don't find him terribly original, and there are so many people that are better (including nearly every dj at Coachella), but as a spectacle and reducing a set into a digestible product for the masses, he's a master and love him or hate him he is "entertaining." I thought the vibe, which was unlike DJ centric events like the Winter Music Conference was exceptional during his set. Enough defending that Twat.
Anyway, hopefully no one made the death march in that heat by walking to/fro the festival. Like it's been said before a little prudent planning and you can drive in/park and exit without a lot of drama. And I don't understand the camping situation, from what I could tell there were no trees/shade with these kids setting up in open fields that has to be some kind of human rights violation, right?
Originally posted by sweetcell:
[QB] gawd damn.
best festival ever?
it was like fantasy day-camp for musically obsessed adult sufferers of hyperactive attention deficit disorder.
what bnyced said, except for the tiesto part - i thought he blew chunks.
Best performances:
Bjork
Jesus & Mary Chain
SOULWAX doing NITE VERSIONS!!!
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Hot Chip
Arctic Monkeys
RATM
Arcade Fire
Comedians of Comedy
Good:
Peter, Bjorn, & John
Tapes 'N Tapes
The Gotan Project
Manu Chao
Damien Rice
Of Montreal
Faithless (cheesy but good)
Amy Winehouse
Jarvis Cocker
Explosions in the Sky
Justice
MSTRKRFT
Worst:
Kaiser Chiefs (sloppy vocals + mediocre music)
Interpol (She Wants Revenge with better clothes and more fans)
CSS (umm, people like Le Tigre wannabes?)
Crowded House (the singing was just horrendous)
Travis (I caught two horrific songs)
Lily Allen (she should rest…)
Bjork
Jesus & Mary Chain
SOULWAX doing NITE VERSIONS!!!
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Hot Chip
Arctic Monkeys
RATM
Arcade Fire
Comedians of Comedy
Good:
Peter, Bjorn, & John
Tapes 'N Tapes
The Gotan Project
Manu Chao
Damien Rice
Of Montreal
Faithless (cheesy but good)
Amy Winehouse
Jarvis Cocker
Explosions in the Sky
Justice
MSTRKRFT
Worst:
Kaiser Chiefs (sloppy vocals + mediocre music)
Interpol (She Wants Revenge with better clothes and more fans)
CSS (umm, people like Le Tigre wannabes?)
Crowded House (the singing was just horrendous)
Travis (I caught two horrific songs)
Lily Allen (she should rest…)